There is also this really old rope swing at the Whiting Homestead. The entire day leading up to the rope swing Bryant kept assuring me that I should not feel pressured to go on the rope swing. After all I am pregnant and should not do anything that could endanger the life of our unborn child. Well I eventually climbed up the "hill" to get better pictures of Bryant swinging and what do you know? Bryant is telling me that I need to try the swing at least once :) I always knew he would want me to experience the rope swing that almost claimed the life of his sister-in-law's sister (well not quite but she did roll down the "hill").
Me on the rope swing :)
Bryant on the rope swing. He went numerous times.
Bryant took Tucker on the rope swing after seeing his brother Jeff takes his girls one at a time. Tucker however was not so fond of the adventure and did not care to do it again!
Bryant and Tucker on the Rope swing!
Also while at the cabin Bryant enlisted the help of his brother Jordan to pull all of the studs out of our tires. We have had snow tires on our car since winter of 2008. Bryant didn't think it was such a good idea to continue to press our luck with the snow tires. Did you know it is like a $500 fine if you have snow tires on your car after April? It is definitely A LOT cheaper to buy new tires than pay the fine and then buy new tires. So instead of buying new tires they pulled every single stud out of the tires.
Tucker loved riding in/on anything that was not our car. He loved riding the quad with Bryant. Even rode on Uncle Jeremy's new motorcycle! He had a lot of fun
He even tried to take his cousin Rachel out for a ride. Fortunately they had no idea how to turn it on or make it go. But it is quite the picturesque moment :)
On Saturday we enjoyed the annual Springville/Taylor parade. This year my father-in-law knew better than to sit next to me and poor Jon was stuck with me on one side of him and his girlfriend on the other. We both like to shout out to all the passing paradeans. When I was younger and in parades it was my favorite to be able to hear my dad yelling my name out above the crowed! "Yea! Go Malisa!" Everyone next to me would always ask, "Who is that?" and it please me like nothing else to be able to say it was my dad. So to carry on the tradition of being loud, I yell for everyone in the parade based on what their banners say. Our first year with Bryant's family I cheered loudly. Than Bryant's father turns to Bryant and says "whoever that is yelling is going to lose their voice." To which Bryant replied, "That's Malisa." :) It was nice to have another person at the parade happy to yell at everything too! Besides the louder you are the more likely the people in the parade are to throw their candy at your group :)
Even Tucker got into the cheering mood. It was so fun to hear him yell, "Yea, woo hoo!" and clap his hands :)
The ponies and horses were a big hit with Tucker!
One of the best floats at the parade was Abraham Lincoln. He was really big!
After the parade we went to one of Bryant's aunt's house for lunch. Hunter loved sitting in the back of the tractor and going wherever anyone would take him.
Hunter and Rachel
On Sunday, we decided that we would go see the infamous beaver dam and maybe catch a glimpse of the beaver that has built the amazing dam.
Here we all are on the quad. Eventually we moved Hunter between me and Bryant but otherwise it was a delightful trip.
Here is the beaver mound where the beaver lives. We saw him swim into it on one side and while we were watching for him to come out he took off out a different side and down the stream. He was one tricky beaver.
Malisa and Hunter in front of the dam that has been build by the beaver!
Here is Tucker reluctantly posing for a picture :P
That night they made smores (YUM). Bryant and Jon tried to play chubby bunnies with the giant marshmallows. It was hilarious!! Bryant was not even able to fit one in his mouth because he was laughing so hard at Jon! Jon managed to get one into his mouth say "chubby bunnies" and then eventually (despite the enormous amount of laughter) get a second one into his mouth. Shortly after the second one went in, he tried to exclaim "chubby bunnies" and then everything came out of his mouth!
Here is Sarah, Baileigh, and Rachel enjoying their gooey smores.
Rachel showing off her sticky fingers.
I was grateful that Tucker had more interest in the swing set than in smores, cause I really did not want to have to clean him up.
He was so proud of the fact that he could hang :)
Bryant and his brothers and cousins and other family, played a delightful round or two of "the stick game." Everyone has a stick and everyone but one has a hole for their stick. The person without a hole is trying to get a hole from someone else. This person whacks a can (or some other sturdy piece of garbage) towards the other players. If the can comes close to your hole you are supposed to hit it away with your stick without losing your hole. While you are hitting the can other players tyr to take your hole leaving you without a whole. This game usually lasts until someone gets injured bad enough to bleed. Which is what eventually happened with this game.
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